Firefox Usage Climbing In Europe

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 17, 2006 @10:08AM from the moving-on-up dept.

sebFlyte writes "ZDNet is reporting that, according to the most recent set of statistics from Web monitoring firm XiTi, Mozilla's most popular brower is now the browser of choice for one in five of Europe's surfers, at least at home. The fact that all the measurements were taken on a Sunday means that the figure isn't accurate for the whole market, though, since business PCs tend to have lower Firefox usage rates." From the article: "Other Web metrics companies produce more conservative estimates of Firefox' market share. In November, OneStat.com reported that Firefox had achieved a global market share of 11.5 percent, although it found that only 4.9 percent of people were using it in the UK."

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All Opera fanboys keep below this thread please. by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-17 10:33 · Score: -1, Troll

Makes the job of ignoring you less difficult.
Firefox is unstable. by Futurepower(R) · 2006-01-17 13:00 · Score: 0, Troll

Firefox is the most unstable program commonly used with Windows.
Re:Oh Boy.. by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-17 14:30 · Score: -1, Troll

In Europe? Wouldn't like to rain on your parade folks but

Over they like David Hassellhoff, and Jerry Lewis is much loved in France.

Having the headline read, 'Firefox Bigger THan Hassellhoff in Europe' would have had the same effect on this, the /. crowd. The others/clueless would google for a downloadable browser named Haselhoff of course.